Some of my acquisitions of December, 2008

[electroking]

Thanks Captain for this most useful account of modern history. And congratulations
for the new sets, it's always a pleasure to read about your fine collection.

[Electrohome]

That sure is quite an interesting story on Brazil's history. I didn't know it was originally a Portugeese colony at one time. Just makes me think what a wonderful country I now live in and how far Brazil has come as a country and that many parts of Brazil are now tourist attractions and is very vital to the South Amercian tourist scene. There's some parts of Brazil I would like to see some day there and also that there are some ancient ruins of long lost cities reportedly found in Brazil's jungles and rainforests. Humans were there many thousands of years even before we came to the Americas. Much of our history and past has yet to be unlocked and rediscovered deep in Brazil's jungles and rain forests. We will find that part of our long-forgotten past.
The rainforests and jungles have long covered up those ancient cities and civilizations and have been lost for the ages. I would be really interesting to see that CT-100 in Brazil and those 4 surviving color roundies. I am very sure more of those color roundies are hidden and are yet to be found there.

[Captain Video]

Well, the real ruins of ancient civilizations are in Peru. Since Brazil is so big, and the jungle is so dense, for many years people believed that there might be something to be found inside the Brazilian part of the Amazon jungle. Many tried to find it, from the Spanish on the XVI century to modern explorers in early 20th century. The most recorrent legend was that the famous "Eldorado" ( the city made entirely of gold ) was in there. But almost no serious scientist believe today that there is something to be really found in there.

One very famous adventurer who lost his life there, in 1925, was British colonel Percy Fawcett, who is called by some as "the real life Indiana Jones." If I am correct, he entered the jungle searching for the "Eldorado." His body was never found.

Coincidently with the main subject of this forum, which is vintage television, a Brazilian man who was most obsessed with finding the remains of colonel Fawcett was the media tycoon that brought television to Brazil in 1950. Mister Assis Chateaubriand, the man who brought TV to this country, had a fixation on the History of colonel Fawcett. He financed many expeditions, and put his reporters on the track several times, all on a vain effort to try to uncover the misterys behind colonel Fawcett's disapearence.

[Captain Video]

I am back, brought with me ( I traveled by bus ) just the Admiral and a 1983 VCR. The other TVs will arrive by truck. Only a 1976 Sharp Lynitron I was not able to pick up this time. It will have to wait a few months more.

[Captain Video]

The GE, the Emerson and the Invictus arrived today. All safe!!!

A curious thing about the GE is that the labels on the back are in Portuguese. Funny. This TV was imported from the USA, no doubt, but I never knew that GE of Brazil did put labels in Portuguese on these sets. I will have to do some research on this subject.

The Emerson is 27 INCH SET!!! Not 23 or 24 as it was imagined, but a 27!!!

While I was there, I took the opportunity to visit an Historic site: the building where the first TV station of Brazil began it's transmissions in 1950. I will post pictures of it later.